Emotionally Invested in Defeat

The Weekly Standard sums up all who support victory in Iraq coming. There is no option but victory. And we're almost there.

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As expected, today’s extraordinary front page article in the New York Times on progress in Iraq is causing aneurysms across wide swathes of the left-wing blogosphere. You might think the news that “the security improvements in most neighborhoods are real” might be cause for bipartisan celebration, or at least cautious optimism.

Think again. Instead, left wing bloggers are doing everything in their power to deny or disparage the gains that our soldiers are making--with increasingly little concern for intellectual honesty of their arguments.

It seems they’re determined to prove right Senator Joe Lieberman, who warned earlier this month that Democrats today are “emotionally invested in a narrative of defeat and retreat in Iraq”--regardless of the evidence.

Celebrate the Progress

An inspirational update on the progress in Iraq from Michael Yon.
A photo essay.

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A Bishop came to St John’s Church in Baghdad today, 15 November, where a crowd of locals welcomed him home.

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LTC Michael told me today that when al Qaeda came to Dora, they began harassing Christians first, charging them “rent.” It was the local Muslims, according to LTC Michael, who first came to him for help to protect the Christians in his area. That’s right. LTC Michael told me more than once that the Muslims reached out to him to protect the Christians from al Qaeda. Real Muslims here are quick to say that al Qaeda members are not true Muslims.

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Today, Muslims mostly filled the front pews of St John’s. Muslims who want their Christian friends and neighbors to come home.

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Side Note: The interpreter, a local in army fatigues, is not masked and has openly allowed his picture to be taken and published. This is as big a sign that things are changing as any.

Progress 6: From Iraqi

Iraq continues to improve at an astonishing rate. Many things could be said about the doom that awaits, but the facts are that it is improving. Until it starts going to other way, all other prophecies are moot. This is from IraqPundit, from Iraq about Iraq. May the progress continue. And may the message of success reach those who are held in the dark by the mainstream news.
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I know those who are wedded to the idea of a failed Iraq are calling me a deluded idiot and worse. But things are improving slowly. My relatives in Baghdad say there's no comparison; things are much better than they were six months ago. They can visit friends in different areas and walk about the neighbourhood in the evening.

Frankly, I don't understand why so many mock us for wanting a future for Iraq. Is your hatred for George Bush so great that you prefer to see millions of civilians suffer just to prove him wrong?

It really comes down to this: you are determined to see Iraq become a permanent hellhole because you hate Bush. And we are determined to see Iraq become a success, because we want to live.